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Barmouth News - 15th August, 2010


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Summer Strolling in support of local hospice

Nightingale House Hospice invites walkers to join the Dolgellau to Barmouth ‘Summer Stroll’. This is a unique opportunity to raise money for the local Hospice, and experience the beautiful Mawddach trail, from Dolgellau to Barmouth. The walk is around 9.5 miles long, and starts at 11am on Saturday 11th September at Barmouth harbour. On their return all walkers will be receive a fish and chips lunch. This is an ideal family day out and the walk is dog, children and pram friendly. Registration is £10 per person, £5 per child (aged 2-10), and infants (younger than 2) go free. You can also register as a family (2 adults and 2 children) for a group fee of £25.

Those who register, and wish to stay overnight in the town will also be eligible for discounts on local B&B’s and hotels, details of which will be sent with registration packs. The event sponsor is Emma’s Coaches Cymru. Nightingale House Hospice provides specialist palliative care services, completely free-of-charge, to patients and their families across a wide area stretching from Wrexham, Flintshire, East Denbighshire to Barmouth and the border towns including Oswestry and Whitchurch. This year alone, it will cost £2.4 million to run the Hospice, this equates to just under £7,000 per day. Only 20% of this comes from statutory government sources. The Hospice greatly relies on the generosity of the communities it serves. To find out more about how to help visit www.nightingalehouse.co.uk or call Income Generation on 01978 314292.

Barmouth Bowling Club

The bowling club fun day was held Saturday 14th Aug. The sun shone and we had a brilliant day. The committee men had worked really hard during the morning setting up the games on the green .There was lots of fun and laughter. After the games ended we retired to the club house where Bill Gaskell presented the prizes of bottles of wine. There was eight winners some winning two bottles for winning their heat. The overall winner was Margaret Williams. Bill announced that he had a bottle of Champers to be won so everyone went back outside to try for it. The winner being Sheila Davies.

Credit Union Change

The Y Llechen Credit Union that operates on Thursday morning in the Communities First office has made some changes to its loan process to make it easier for people to access loans. There are many reasons why people choose not to use conventional banks for loans, Y Llechen loans are based on ability to repay rather than on other criteria. Information packs and loan repayment information is available from the office in Station Road any time. The volunteers who run the branch are available on Thursdays from 11am till 1pm to guide people through the process. Until recently there was an eight-week qualifying period before members could access loans, that has now been removed and a credit scoring system helps borrowers assess how much they can afford to repay. This is an alternative to doorstep lenders that could save large amounts of money on repayments.

Craigs collection grows

Craig Dobbins has added another recycling scheme to his charity collecting. He now accepts used computer ink cartridges, these go to raise money for the MacMillan Cancer Research Charity, he is still collecting plastic bottle tops for Hospice at home and stamps for the purchase of wheelchairs and also ring pulls that benefit a leukaemia research charity. All items can be left at the Communities First office in Station Road.

RNLI Flag Day result

A collection was held on August 5th at which a total of £1650-56 was donated. In Barmouth and District £593-13 was collected, a further £163-01 came from Fairbourne and £894-42 from Shell Island. William Burton the promoter would like to thank everyone involved for their hard work in raising this commendable sum.

Radio Barmouth

If you would like to have your say on the creation of an on line radio station for Barmouth you are invited to go along to a discussion at the Communities First office at 3-45 on Monday 23rd August. Some well known local characters will be there along with Devinda and Mathilde who many will have met during the National Theatre production that ran in Barmouth last month. Everyone is welcome—whether you are a backroom assistant or a budding reporter or performer. The aim will be to develop downloadable podcasts in the early stages and grow from this base over time.

Help for Heroes

There will be a great evening of live music at the Last Inn on Tuesday 24th August to raise funds for the “Heroes”. The evening will begin around 8-30pm with music from the 40’s onwards, if you really want to help the atmosphere you are invited to dress in the period style.

W.I.

Mari O’Rourke, the President welcomed members to the July meeting, which opened with the singing of Meirion accompanied by Blodwen Comerford. Good wishes were sent to Mrs Goodchild who was 99 that week. Apologies were received from indisposed and holidaying members. Mari introduced Llinos from Dolgellau who spoke about a new befriending project that is running in South Gwynedd where volunteers are trained to offer support by listening and being a good companion. The training enables people to offer information about health and social care services that will be of interest to people who may be living alone. Those interested in joining the scheme can contact Llinos on 01341 422575. After this the minutes of the previous meeting were read, confirmed and signed. Janice thanked members who had helped at the bottle stall. Thanks were received from Marc Rees for the help members had given at his “For mountain sea and sand “ production.

The summer outing was a great success on June 29th when members went for a trip on the Llangollen canal over the Froncysyllte aqueduct. On the way the group called in at the “Glass Blobbery”at Glanrafon where they were entertained with an amusing demonstration. Mari and Rose were thanked by Ann Williams for making the arrangements. Raffles were won by Ruth Lloyd, Venta Bath, Jack Payton and Maria Campbell. Doreen read the newsletters which included congratulations to Greta Cartwright on her award of an M.B.E. and good wishes to Meinir for a speedy recovery. Mari introduced the President and Secretary of the Llanelltyd W.I. who were delegates at the recent Cardiff conference.

The guest speakers there were John Burco, Gwen Parry –Jones, Jim Smith and Leigh Durell, widow of Gerald Durell. The resolution this year was directed at reducing the excess packaging on goods. The Merioneth County Show will be held at Ty Cerrig fiedls, Ynys, on August 25th. The admission charge for non competitors will be £8. The Craft Exhibition will be held at the Dragon Theatre on September 9th. Help is needed to serve coffee. The July meeting continued with a quiz prepared by Mari. Members had to identify photos that had been taken from unusual angles of well known buildings and local features along the High Street. Along with this was a delicious Cheese and Wine buffet prepared by the committee. The next meeting will be held on September 22nd.

C.A.B.

The next visit by the Citizens Advice Bureau advisor will be on 13th &27th September and 11th & 25th October . In the meantime the highly sophisticated C.A.B. computer point is available every weekday from 9-30 till 4-30 in the old payments office in Station Road, opposite LL Building Supply store. This unit can access the whole CAB information data base and is extremely easy to use, help is at hand if needed.

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